Historians would agree that Social Darwinism
a. led some to believe that the extinction of so-called "inferior races" was a good thing.
b. contended that through evolution, states would eventually eliminate war.
c. applauded the cosmopolitanism of the philosophes.
d. continued Enlightenment traditions.
e. had very limited consequences.
a
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A. earliest use of stone tools. B. earliest use of fire. C. establishment of settled agriculture. D. earliest use of bronze. E. invention of pottery.
The Egyptian pyramids were
A) built during the period of the New Kingdom. B) part of a large spiritual complex near Alexandria. C) conceived and built as tombs for a city of the dead. D) all dedicated to the god Aten. E) the final resting places of the pharaohs of the New Kingdom.
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The southern economy by 1860 could be fragile because it was so dependent on